Wheel tire and felly



(No Model.)

A; W. THOMAS.

WHEEL TIRE AND FELLY.

No. 399,360. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMOS XV. THOMAS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WH EEL TIRE AN D. FELLY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,360, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed June 30, 1888. Serial No. 278,645. (No model.)

To aZZ 21-hour it may concern: able elastic or flexible material and provided Be itknown that I, AMOS IV. THOMAS, a citiwith a web or rib, a. zen of the United States, residing at the city B and B are two curved or concave rings of Philadelphia,in the county of Philadelphia made of metal, wood, or other material, and 5 and State of Pennsylvania,have invented cer- 1 provided with depending inner extremities, b tain new and useful Improvements in Tires and b, which are preferably formed integral and Fellies for the lVheels of Vehicles, of with the curved or concave rings B and B, which the following is a specification. forming the telly of the wheel.

My presentin vention relates to an improved The rib or web a of the tire is caused to en- 1o flexible or elastic solid or partially-solid tire gage between the two-part folly, and is held provided with one or more webs or ribs which firmly thereto by means of bolts (1 and nuts are caused to engage with a two-part concave d, as shown, for instance, in Fig. 1, whereby or curved telly. a very strong and durable tire and support- My invention is, in general, applicable to the in g-felly is provided, especially adapted for 1 road-wheels of carriages, wagons, or other rolluse in connection with the road-wheels of bimg conveyances, but more particularly to the cycles orother analogous rolling conveyances.

road-wheels of bicycles, tricycles, and veloci- In Fig. 2 is shown a slightly-modified form pedes of all varieties. of felly in application to my improved solid The 1. rincipal object oi my invention is to flexible tire A, with a centrally-located rib or 20 provide an improved tire and two-part felly web, a. In this instance the folly is in two for a wheel of simple construction, yet at the parts, B and B, with vertically-depending insame time strong, durable, and serviceable, ner extremities, b and h. The extremity b of and especially adapted for use in connection the part 15 is provided with a right-angular with the road-whcels of bicycles and other projection, b' which, when the two parts con- 25 rolling conveyances. stituting the telly are caused to assume their The characteristic features of my invention normal operative position, engages with or will be more particularly understood taken rests upon the projection 11, and the tire and in connection with the accompanying drawfelly held firmlyin position by means of bolts (1. ings, forming part hereof, and in which In Fig. 3 is illustrated a modification of the 0 Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of tire and felly shown, for instance, in Figs. 1 my improved solid flexible tire provided with and 2, the tire A being constructed of ruba centrally-located web or rib held between a her or other flexible material, having the portwo-part concave felly by means of bolts and tion which constitutes the tread of the tire nuts, the said telly being shown partly in secpreferably formed two or more times the 8 4 5 tion and partly in elevation. Fig. 2 is a simithickness of the sides thereof, and the sides lar view of my improved solid flexible tire preferably bent into a cylindrical form, with provided with a web or rib held in an oblong the portions near the outer extremities thickchannel formed with a concave two-part folly ened so as to form enlargements a and o by means of bolts, and which felly is shown thereat. Just above or beyond these enlarge- 0 4o partly in section and partly in elevation; and ments is inserted an annular rim, which forms Fig. is a similar view of a modified form of a bearing-surface for theinner surface of the tire constructed in part: solid with the sides, sides of the tire A, and against the outer surnear the outer extremities enlarged, and face of the tire is caused to engage on each which are brought into engagement with the 1 side a flanged or other suitable form of ring, 45 annular rim and the flanged rings forming B or B. 'lhrough the two rings constituting the telly by means of bolts and nuts, and the the telly of the wheel are inserted bolts 07, and said felly being shown therein partly in secon the threaded extremities of which are tion and partly in elevation. mounted nuts (7', thereby presenting as so ar- Referring to the (llELWlIlgS for a further (10- ranged a very strong and durable folly and I00 50 scription of the invention, A isa solid tire of tire for various uses in connection with the cylindrical form made of rubber or other suit road-wheels of .rolling conv yances.

The tire may be made of leather, Woven or textile fabric properly filled in or treated to make the same either Wholly or partially solid, Whichever may be desired, yet nevertheless 5 I give preference to the use of rubber, be-

cause Well adapted for thepurpose.

If desired, the tongues or ribs of the tire may be cemented into the curved portions of the felly and the depending channel formed to with the same in order that the tire may be held Very solidly in position therein.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, What I claim as n e w and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

AMOS WV. THOMAS.

Witnesses:

W. A. WHITMORE, Geo. W. REED. 

